LEAD 2021 is the district's 10 year plan for our schools. The plan has 7 Strategic Outcomes, or components. If you want to read the 7 Strategic Outcomes, click on this link:LEAD 2021 Strategic Outcomes
Each of the 7 Outcomes has multiple steps, which we are responsible for implementing in our school.
District leaders have selected specific steps for us to implement in the fall. Here are the steps that we are expected to begin implementing when we return, in reader friendly language (my editing, not the exact words):
1) Getting the best people possible in place and holding each of us accountable for implementing LEAD 2021.
a) Professional Learning communities are to meet at least 2 hours each month and use qualitative and quantitative data to analyze student performance and adjust instruction.
b) Each PLC will use these four questions to guide their work: What is it we expect students to learn? How will we know when they have learned it? How will we respond if they don't learn it? and How will we respond when they already know it?
2) We will change our instruction from a teaching platform to a learning platform by designing engaging and differentiated work for students. Here's the description of a learning platform: A learning platform is focused on the student and is based on the belief that students will commit their attention and persistence to work that has meaning to them. A learning platform is evidenced by: Students committing and persisting in creating knowledge. Teachers designing engaging learning experiences and articulating clear learning goals. Students creating paths to master learning goals based on formative assessments. Teachers collaborating and designing differentiated opportunities utilizing assessment data. Students and teachers demonstrating profound conceptual understandign utilizing a variety of resources and strategies including the seamless integration of technology. Here are specific steps we will take next year:
a) Measure student engagement and use that for improvement.
b) Provide collaboration time and opportunities so you can get better at designing a learning platform and meeting the needs of students.
c) Each PLC will write SMART goals that use assessment results for student improvement, as well as a SMART goal for student engagement.
d) Teachers will use the Reflective tool to chart their progress toward implementation of a learning platform.
3) Each student is going to write a personal learning plan.
a) For this year, the focus will be on grades 3-5, but we will begin goal setting with K-2 as well.
We're going to be looking for ways to utilize technology in the learning platform, so I decided to use a WIKI to prepare you for what's coming. If you aren't familiar with WIKIs, it's an interactive format, so once you join, you can ask comments or questions as they occur to you. If we use this format to talk about the changes that are coming, it may not be QUITE so overwhelming when you come back in August! I'd love to hear your questions or concerns, your ideas and your fears, because I'm sure you have them. I've been working on this all spring, and I still have lots of questions and concerns about how we'll implement everything.
One of the biggest lessons I've learned from events that have happened in the world and in education this year is that change is occurring, whether we like it or not. Our job is to implement these changes, and the expectation is that we will do it. So we're going to do it together, with a smile on our face and with eyebrows up!
LEAD 2021 is the district's 10 year plan for our schools. The plan has 7 Strategic Outcomes, or components. If you want to read the 7 Strategic Outcomes, click on this link:LEAD 2021 Strategic Outcomes
Each of the 7 Outcomes has multiple steps, which we are responsible for implementing in our school.
District leaders have selected specific steps for us to implement in the fall. Here are the steps that we are expected to begin implementing when we return, in reader friendly language (my editing, not the exact words):
1) Getting the best people possible in place and holding each of us accountable for implementing LEAD 2021.
2) We will change our instruction from a teaching platform to a learning platform by designing engaging and differentiated work for students.
Here's the description of a learning platform:
A learning platform is focused on the student and is based on the belief that students will commit their attention and persistence to work that has meaning to them.
A learning platform is evidenced by:
Students committing and persisting in creating knowledge.
Teachers designing engaging learning experiences and articulating clear learning goals.
Students creating paths to master learning goals based on formative assessments.
Teachers collaborating and designing differentiated opportunities utilizing assessment data.
Students and teachers demonstrating profound conceptual understandign utilizing a variety of resources and strategies including the seamless integration of technology.
Here are specific steps we will take next year:
3) Each student is going to write a personal learning plan.
We're going to be looking for ways to utilize technology in the learning platform, so I decided to use a WIKI to prepare you for what's coming. If you aren't familiar with WIKIs, it's an interactive format, so once you join, you can ask comments or questions as they occur to you. If we use this format to talk about the changes that are coming, it may not be QUITE so overwhelming when you come back in August! I'd love to hear your questions or concerns, your ideas and your fears, because I'm sure you have them. I've been working on this all spring, and I still have lots of questions and concerns about how we'll implement everything.
One of the biggest lessons I've learned from events that have happened in the world and in education this year is that change is occurring, whether we like it or not. Our job is to implement these changes, and the expectation is that we will do it. So we're going to do it together, with a smile on our face and with eyebrows up!